Lightweight and compact, it has around a quite expensive tripod. Some kinks remain, plastic rings that are really, really cheap, but do not intervene in the solidity of the whole. Fairly stable, it nevertheless has trouble fully stabilize unfold (camera 1m90 tall I say. But this is normal. If allowed to 1m70 it stabilizes in 2 seconds after you let go. Unfortunately, I can not compare it to a high-end tripod, I have no case the chance to hold one in my hands.
